Still wrong

You said the war was going well. Since the leader declared it would be over in 4-5 weeks, it’s a logical/rational/reasonable conclusion that you agreed with that—not misinformation. If you want to accuse misinformation use, claim the leader does it virtually every day.

Judeo/Christian philosophy didn’t exist until the late 1800s, not regularly taught in colleges until the 1940s. So, NO, school-age students in 1700s colonial/revolution times were NOT exposed to Judeo/Christian philosophy by simply reading the Bible. Most Jewish theologians do not accept that there is a Judeo/Christian philosophy, understanding the two religions as distinct and separate.

Honest Christians admit that Jesus was never a Christian—the term didn’t exist during his time on Earth, he never used it for himself, and never called himself Christ! Jewish and Christian theologians have taught for decades that the Jesus movement was a reform movement within Judaism. That it became Christianity is a seriously long, honestly messy, historical story.

In the New England Colonies, it was college graduates and ministers-in-training who taught in local and grammar schools. In the Middle Colonies it was local ministers, laymen, or unmarried or widowed women who taught in the schools. In the Southern Colonies it was private European tutors who taught plantations’ children, while the poor received little education.

Washington’s teacher was a schoolmaster not a minister. Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, Hamilton, Jay, and Madison were all college graduates. Thus this retired United Methodist Pastor knows and believes authentic truth.

Rodney Noel Saunders, Florissant